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The specs may be comparable, but not the end result : my $2000 Windows 11 laptop is slower and laggier than the Neo.
by goldenarm 7mo ago
The specs may be comparable, but not the end result : my $2000 Windows 11 laptop is slower and laggier than the Neo.
- chocochunks 7mo agoIs it your personal or corporate PC with corporate junk on it?
- kstrauser 7mo agoSo… the contention is that Windows isn’t good for work use? That’s not a compelling argument in its favor.
- chocochunks 7mo agoNo, the contention is that corporate junk has a tendency to slow down PCs and equivalent software would do the same to the Neo or worse.
- kstrauser 7mo agoHuh, guess I’ve never worked at a Mac shop big enough to suffer Mac-ruining software. My biggest shop only had about 15,000 employees, so maybe it’s only the large companies enduring that.
- goldenarm 7mo agoPersonal PC. Fresh install from the official ISO with the least bloatware. It's still a nightmare.
- gamblor956 7mo agoYou must have some broken hardware. My $600 2022 corporate laptop is faster and smoother than a $600 Neo, and that's with the corporate spyware crap installed.
- Vasbarlog 7mo agoI had a Dell Latitude 7320 from 2022 as a corporate laptop. New it costed well over $2000. It was thermal throttling like crazy and it was even worse when I was on calls. It’s battery wouldn’t last more than an hour and even when you put it to sleep the fan would keep spinning. It would take more than 15 to restart and another 10 for most of the apps to open. It was literally unusable. Meanwhile my M1 MacBook from 2020 is still going strong.
- gamblor956 7mo agoI have a Dell Latitude from 2010 that is still goes strong (albeit it has no more battery). None of my classmates' Apples from that era, or the replacements, or the replacements for those replacements, or the replacements for the replacements of the replacements, are still working. I also have a Thinkpad from 2000 that still works.
- goldenarm 7mo agoI double checked, the hardware is fine. It's a mix of catastrophic Nvidia drivers and Windows 11 famous lack of optimization. I'm much happier on my 3x cheaper laptop on Linux that can handle three 144hz displays flawlessly on the iGPU.